Mission Control adding Spaces not possible

This is an iMac with 27-inch screen
In Mission Control I dont get a + in the upper right corner. ALT doesn't help either.

Thanks for posting!
I was trying to figure why my plus button was showing up on the left instead of the right.
Matt

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Mission Control vs Spaces. Was this an upgrade?

In spaces, I could see which space that I was in by looking at menu bar. Apparently this does not happen with Mission Control. I work most of the time with two monitors and with spaces I could move any window to the space on either monitor. With Mission control, I cannot move a window to the other monitor. This is improtant because I move Finder windows to where I have Mail so I can drag and drop onto an E-mail. I use this for e-mails with multiple attachments.
I have yet to see an advantage of Mission Control over spaces.

Wasn't a upgrade, it was a arbitrary decision to mess with the UI and people's heads.
I agree it should have both MC and Spaces, let the best UI interface win.

Mission Control new spaces wallpapers

I set up the iPhoto gallery for wallpaper. It changes every half an hour.
What I really like is the new feature - every newly created space in Mission Control comes out with different wallpaper. Useful and great.
And have a tiny bug: in Mission Control pointing to add new space button (Right Top corner) this button always has thumb of first space's wallpaper. Please fix it)

No offence, but just to be sure...
When you click on the '+' button over there on the right-hand side of the MC window, you ARE then clicking in the new thumbnail that shows up, and not just exiting MC back into your current desktop, right?

Mission Control: Application Does Not Switch To Assigned Desktop Once Open

I have Adobe Photoshop CS5 assigned to DESKTOP 2 in Mission Control. If Photoshop is closed, and I launch it from the dock or Launchpad, Lion switches to DESKTOP 2 to launch Photoshop. This is what I want.
However, if Photoshop is already open and I click on an image file in Adobe Bridge, or Finder, Lion does not switch to DESKTOP 2. Photoshop will launch on whatever desktop I am on, in front of Finder or Adobe Bridge.
I have experienced this when I have "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use" and "When switching to an application, switch to a desktop with open windows for this application" on or off. Both settings seem to have the same problem.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Any suggestions? I used this feature extensively with Spaces, and Lion is killing my workflow unless I can get this figured out.
Thanks!!

Wait DONT reinstall yet!!! there is a switch for this:
I bet yours is toggled the wrong way.
Message was edited by: coocooforcocoapuffs: never mind, did not read your post properly.

My mission control key does not work with the new Mac update

The key on the keyboard doesnt work, neither does the button on my dock. Any help?
P.S. is anyone else having as much trouble as I am with the new update?

The pre-2006 Mac models this forum covers cannot run a Mac OS high enough to have Mission Control. If you can identify your Mac to us we can get you moved to a more active forum.

Mission Control trackpad gesture not working as before in Mavericks

Hi there,
I noticed the three fingers gesture to launch Mission Control has changed in Mavericks. Now you need to stop touching the trackpad when doing the swipe up and down. I mean, you need to swipe up, STOP touching the trackpad, and then swipe down in order to activate and deactivate MC.
It may sound as a triviality but really bothers me a lot. I use that gesture pretty much to see every window opened and I hate to lose a second performing it.
Do you guys know if there is a way to change it back? I already tried to deactivate Exposé but got nothing different.
Thanks,
Best regards.

as said above
PlotinusVeritasNov 30, 2013 10:17 AMin response to rafadore
usually in such instances resetting mission control gestures in Sys. preferences resolves it
uncheck and recheck your trackpad gestures and re-verify.
then restart mac, this fixed my error....hope it works

Thunderbird Mission Control Desktop/AutoConfig not working for some users

I have the file: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\custom.js"
It contains:
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.filename", "TMcustom.cfg");
I have the file: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\TMcustom.cfg"
It contains:
var promptService = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/embedcomp/prompt-service;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPromptService);
promptService.alert(null, "title", "testing");
For most of my users the alert pops up fine when I start Thunderbird, but for a few it doesn't. All of the machines where setup with the same install script. If I log into one of the machines where it's not working as a different user, then it works fine, so I know the files are in the right spot. So why would it not work for specific users? Is there something in the user's Windows profile that could cause it to not work? Or are there any other suggestions?

As it turns out this was a known bug that was corrected in the recent release of Java 7_65 and Java 8_11. Here is a link to the bug description in the database.
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Accessability/Universal Access - Zoom does not work in Launchpad/Mission control

If using the Accessability 'Zoom' option it works normally in 'normal' desktop Spaces.
On entering either LaunchPad or Mission Control it is not possible to zoom in or, more importantly, zoom back out to full screen.
It is also not possible to move the zoomed area around the full desktop.
These issues make LaunchPad and Mission Control unusable if entered with any amount of Zoom enabled.
The workaround appears to be to leave LaunchPad or Mission Control, Zoom fully out and go back in again.
This is not helpful if you need the zoom mode in order to be able to see your computer screen.
Anyone found a better workaround?

Phoned AppleCare tonight - the fix was to nuke the System Preferences preference file and reboot.
The good news - 'Zoom' now works with the keyboard shortcuts.
The bad news - the trackpad 'zoom' gesture from Snow Leopard doesn't work in Lion.

How do I delete unused window spaces in Mission Control with Mountain Lion?

When I open an application to full-window size (opening a new "space" in mission control), the "space" does not close when I terminate the application. Instead, the space remains blank. There are no options to remove or open an application, and I cannot remove the empty space in mission control. When I re-open the same program, it creates a new space. Now I have 11 spaces and only 4 of them are usable/not blank.
How do I delete the blank ones?

JonRow, Look familiar?
And when I did try and swipe through full screen apps I briefly got this. See image below. (note the menu bar icons top right)
Before going to a blank grey screen.
If the problem comes back I will tru the killall dock command.
Cheers

Is Mission Control customizable like Spaces?

Hi,
with Spaces in SL there was this nice feature to have apps opening always in one space which I assigned to them. In Mission Control this seems not to work at all. Every morning I need to arrange the programs again. That is not an imporvement. Is there a way that MC remembers the programs and its assigned screen?
For some reasons the screens in mission control seem to rearrange them selfes as well from time to time. So from the original order 1,2,3,4 they suddenly arrange to 3,1,4,2 or similiar. Does this make sense?
Cheers,
KM

Yes it is customizable, for example go to desktop 1 and open the app you want assigned to desktop 1.
now go to the icon in the dock, press control whilst clicking on the apps icon, a menu should pop up.
Navigate to options and under that you should see 'assign', there should be two choices, assign to all desktops
or assign to this desktop, click assign to this desktop. This will now remember that that app opens in desktop 1.
Do this with other desktops and apps as you like. Go to Mission Control prefs in system preferences and unclick the butto that says arrange desktops according to most recent use, unclicking this keeps the desktops in numerical order. Also in in keyboard shortcuts prefs make sure the mission control shortcuts are ticked with
the appropriate Cmd + number ( Cmd+1 for desktop 1 etc). Not quite as slick as Spaces was but once it is don it is done. A bonus is you can choose different desktop pictures for each desktop.
Hope this helps

No spaces in mission control

Hi,
I upgraded to lion about 3 days ago. All was fine, until today. when I try to launch mission control, no spaces will appear. Only the top bar will disappear. Does anyone know how to fix the problem? Thanks!

This seems to be a continuous problem for me and it drives me crazy. I love using Mission Control when it works, but sometimes it just won't launch and new spaces aren't available. At this point, I have to reboot my computer and keep my fingers crossed that it will work afterwards. I believe MacFixIt had an article about this very issue.

Is Mission Control the new Spaces?

Just move from Mountain Lion to Yosemite. All is great but many questions. When my cursor wonders off to the side of the monitor the page I am on disappears and I have to click on the side to bring it back. Can I deactivate this? Is there such a thing as spaces where I can control/left arrow to a different screen?
Thank you!

Is there such a thing as spaces where I can control/left arrow to a different screen?
Still works in Mission Control Desktops. Control up arrow is Mission Control and control down arrow is Expose.
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MISSION CONTROL, LAUNCHPAD, and FULL SCREEN APPS (one month later)

I'm pretty good embracing a new thing when it comes along. I downloaded LION the day it come out, which was over a month ago at this point. On that day, I immediately found MISSION CONTROL and LAUNCHPAD both uninituitve and pointless. Unhandy iCandy. And of FULL SCREEN APPS? Not necessary on an iMac anyway.
So I quickly sought out quick solutions to 'fix' these new features. Launchpad and full screen apps have the advantage that they can be simply ignored. This is a good thing. Mission Control, on the other hand, got in the way of a beloved feature for me: what was once SPACES and EXPOSE. That is, I couldn't simply ignore MC because I still needed the previous helpful features in Snow Leopard.
My solution was kind of surprising and eye-opening. It's complicated to explain but I thought I'd share. This conclusion is likely best suited for someone not using a small screened Mac. It turns out that most users (with big enough screens) don't really need Mission Control, Launchpad, Spaces, or Full Screen apps.
At all.
Let's go through that conclusion, one by one:
FULL SCREEN APPS
If you have a relatively big screen (20 iMac for instance), why do you need Safari full screen? Unless you intend to sit across the room from the computer, no reason. And there's lots of bright empty space when you do this. Do you need the Mail app full screen? If you need reading glasses, maybe, but otherwise, nope. I find it's easier just to stretch out an app pretty big and leave it at that.
Full screen apps DO offer a nice feature which is making your desktop, menubar, and dock go BYE BYE. I can see where sometimes this is a useful feature, but typically -- NOPE. Typically I want access to my dock (to switch between open apps without the added step of cancelling full screen first), and typically I want access to my menubar so that I can glance up and see what time it is or find an app menu quickly.
The only feature I find worthy of praise with full screen apps is that they hide the clutter on your desktop. But there's an app in the Mac App Store which makes your desktop icons vanish with the touch of a button (CAMOUFLAGE). I mean, what's the point of a wallpaper if you bury it with desktop clutter or eliminate it with full screen apps? If it's a busy and distracting wallpaper, umm... you picked bad wallpaper.
LAUNCH PAD
LAUNCH PAD offers an iOS experience inside OS X. At first I thought it was completely silly. After a month now, I kinda get why it's there. Kinda.
You see, before LP, to duplicate it's functionality, you'd have to organize folders yourself. Put folders of various apps together. Place them somewhere in the finder heirarchy. Then drag those folders into the part of the dock with the trashcan. Then you could click them open and have access to similarly themed folders of apps. The problem here, of course, is that unless you're a power user, you'll never do this.
So Apple thought, AH-HA, we'll just drag into OS X a paradigm that users already get from iOS. Clumping apps together any way you like them. The misfire, if you ask me, is not allowing users to drag the new iOS folders straight into the dock when finished. That is to say: copies of said organized folders. It's as if Apple's software people have complete contempt for the dock -- and are desperate to have users abandon it.
My problem is that I like having folders in my dock of stuff I need. It just works, as Steve says. Going to the same EXACT place every time I need anything is more intuitive and graceful than ADDING an app called Launchpad that launches you into a different finder altogether. Makes zero sense and THIS is why I say, like FULL SCREEN APPS, LP can basically be abandoned.
By the way: need proof that Apple has complete contempt for the Dock?
MISSION CONTROL/SPACES
A month has passed since MC was introduced and SPACES was eliminated. I dare anyone to tell me why either is needed at all. Before you get iMiffed, humor me for a moment and hear me out.
The notion of SPACES was that it's a neat way to keep like minded open apps together. I totally bought into this, back in the day. So much so that I was iMiffed when it was gone in Lion. But let's look at this closer.
The REASON why we needed SPACES was that we could have WAY too many windows open at once on a Mac. Right? A big mess of windows covering each other up. Suppose you're surfing in Safari but need iTunes? But iTunes is hidden. So what did you do? You went to Spaces as step one, moused over to your iTunes space as move two, and then clicked it as move three. Seems like a great solution until the day you discover that you could simply click on iTunes in the dock as move one and arrive at iTunes. As one step. Period. Really simple, right?
Why have Spaces and apps dance around when you can just click the app you want and be done with it? That's the critical observation to make in order to follow my entire line of reasoning. Sure, it may look really cool and make Windows machines look like junk, but at the end of the day, why add two steps to something you might do 100 times a day -- switching between apps.
So why OH why did Apple add Spaces? Simple: because too many apps were visible at once in one 'desktop' window. So if you can build many new desktops, there might only be one or two in each. Great solution. Right?
Wrong, as it turns out. Because we still have the two extra steps. It's a weak solution. And it's in complete contempt of the Dock, which as it turns out, offers the strongest solution.
The strong solution would be that only one app is visible in your Mac's window at all times. Say you're in Safari. Despite having 12 other apps open, you only see Safari. Your dock tells you that you have other apps open, but nothing else sits in your window BUT the app you're using. So you want to go to iTunes? So click on it in the dock and Safari vanishes and iTunes emerges by itself. No other windows. What could be simpler? (This app is freeware known as ISOLATOR.)
If you download and try ISOLATOR, you'll say, umm, okay, but wait: sometimes I do want more than one window in view. Okay, fine, turn it off then. From the handy menu bar menu. I find that 98% of the time I need ISOLATOR on. Mileage may vary.
So let's recap. One third party software removes distracting desktop clutter, the other removes distracting app windows. Both can be toggled on and off from the menu bar. One is free, one costs $2. These two solutions remove the only real feature of FULL SCREEN APPS and make SPACES and it's newfangled cousin MISSION CONTROL pointless.
Need that last one explained? Well, what's Mission Control but a variant of spaces? To invoke MC and switch to the needed window are those same two annoying steps Spaces added into the mix. Nothing was fixed. Plus, like spaces, you must invest time and energy organizing such spaces.
Why bother? And so I ask again: can somebody who's read and tried the above carefully explain to me why Mission Control, Launchpad, and Full Screen Apps are really needed at all? (Outside of small screened Macs.) Doesn't the dock and these two sharewares together solve most problems?
Am I missing something?

I agree with everything you said about full screen apps, mission control and launchpad. For apps that made sense to run full screen, they already could under SL. Launchpad is totally unnecessary and Mission Control is a mere shadow of Expose and Spaces.
However, I feel you have not given due credit to Spaces. The point of Spaces is to let one organise logical desktops for different tasks, not just a way to reduce the number of windows on display. For example, I have a Space for software development where I run Xcode and the iPhone simulator, a Firefox window showing perhaps documentation or some other websites pertaining to software development, a Finder window that is opened in the folder with my design docs. I have another Space where I have the remote login sessions, yet another Space with another Firefox window where I do general surfing and emailing. I can switch between these spaces using a keyboard shortcut, which is much quicker than having to lift my hand off the keyboard, move it over to the mouse, move the mouse pointer over the Dock, find the app and click on it, only to find that it has switched to the wrong window of the app.
Without Spaces, organisation of my desktop is disrupted each time I want to switch task, whereas Spaces allows me to drop everything I am doing, go and do something completely different for a while and go back to my exact previous environment. I have a 27" iMac so am not short of screen space but I use Spaces extensively. BTW, switching Spaces using a keyboard shortcut is a lot faster on SL than the equivalent on Lion, thanks to the gratuitous screen animation of the latter.

Mission control changes layering of open documents

When I toggle between mission control desktop spaces, if I have multiple Word or Excel docs (may be true of others, but this is where I see it happen), when I return to the docs space a different document is on top but not selected, so I have to select the top doc then re-select the document I want. It's like the original doc remains on top virtually but not visually. If I toggle back and forth several times, a different doc may be on top each time. This practically kills the value of multiple spaces.
While I'm at it, I hate that opening a document in one space, say from an Outlook email attachment, the file opens in the same space as the originating document rather than switching to the space I've dedicated for the document app, such as Excel.
Do I have to give up using mission control or does someone have a fix?
Thanks!

Yes. I used to get this problem. Seems to have been largely fixed with 10.7.3. I deleted all my desktops and started again.
There are still some bugs though. For example, if you have an app with multiple windows open and then put it in full screen mode. Command-tab doesn't take you to the primary window.
Also the keyboard shortcut to get a spotlight window results in a switch to the finder but doesn't display the finder window.

How can app show up in all mission control windows

Is there a way to have apps show up on all mission control windows and not just the window it was launched in? And how do you assign a window to a specific screen?

Right click the icon in the the dock, in the menu that pops up go to options and you can assign windows to all spaces or just the current one.

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